Originally Posted by
Pielut
No guarantees in any career, nobody owes you sh#$, get over it. If you don't like it, quit. Life is too short for whining. You would need way more than 1000 TPIC to get hired at a major before the freak accident that was the mid 2000's and that would lead to 5 plus years sitting sideways. It's simple, if you want to make more than sub standard wages, do something else.
The "suck it up" mentality is exactly why we are here today. So long as there is a large segment of the pilot population who feels they only deserves scraps, that is all they will get, and will subsequently drag down the rest of the industry. Thankfully, the unity campaigns and Facebook networking have been effective, and bam, bam, bam, Expressjet, Eagle, and Republic all voted against substandard contracts. This likely would not have occurred 5 years ago, but because of the open communication available today, those three pilot groups were able to build on each others' courage and stand up for their own worth. This can only lift all pilot groups, so anyone who looks down their noses at these pilots, thinking their concerns are beneath them, is shortsighted indeed.